Close Your Eyes and You Can Get There

[Mutual Redemption] [Sports] [Growing Together] [Two Strong Leads]

A resilient, blind track-and-field queen x a fallen prodigy and pacer

"A gold medal as my betrothal gift, pain as my offering. I want to share the glory with you in the light."

Childhood friends, once inseparable, they meet again ten years later.

One shines brilliantly, laden with honors.

The other is blind and destitute.

There are two things Tan Zheng has hated most in her life:

First, the light that went out in her optic nerves when she was seventeen.

Second, He Pengshan's running cadence, always off by 0.3 seconds on rainy days.

She runs with He Pengshan's hand in hers, rounding one bend after another, as hope breaks through the earth. For the first time since losing her sight, she finds something to steady herself, and a reason to exist.

He Pengshan was a track prodigy who made his name with a single race at the Huajin Games, but injuries broke him and sent him plunging to rock bottom.

The Olympics, the gold medal, the podium, wearing the national flag: those dreams cruelly replay in his mind again and again, only to be torn apart each time.

Then the girl offers him the only lifeline he has.

"If you had one more chance to compete in the Olympics, would you come with me?"

And so...

At the Paralympics, the tether is ten centimeters long. That is the distance between us as we stand side by side.

"Now I'm the shadow you'll never be able to shake."

P.S. Both leads are each other's only ones, happy ending, no secondary couples, a little angst for flavor.

Theme: Hardship makes you stronger.